A family of three returned home from church on Sunday to find they had lost “everything” in a fire – including the Christmas presents they had bought just the day before. Takapuna senior station officer Steven Callagher said the fire resulted in a “total loss” for the family, destroying all of their belongings. David White/Stuff Takapuna senior station officer Steven Callagher surveys the damage to the Takapuna caravan Park unit. The manager of the motel, Priya Ramachandran​, said a family of three – the youngest of whom is just five-years-old – had lived in the unit for almost two years. “We are lucky nobody got hurt as the family in the unit were at church at the time of the fire.

Source: Stuff December 04, 2022 02:42 UTC